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High-speed access to the internet at home has risen steadily in recent years. Read a summary of our research related to broadband.

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2009

  • Media Mention

    Home & Family Finance Podcast

    May 10, 2009

    John Horrigan appeared on the May 10th edition of Radio America’s “Home & Family Finance” to discuss broadband penetration. Can broadband reach the entire country and does everyone want it? Home & Family Finance Radio is a weekly, one-hour program of...

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  • Data Set

    April 2009 - Economy

    This data set contains questions about the internet's role in navigating the economic recession, as well as questions about broadband and wireless internet usage. It was used in the reports "The Internet and the Recession", "Home Broadband Adoption 2...

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    More in: Broadband, Mobile, Video, Decision Making

  • Media Mention

    FCC Developing Plan To Deliver Broadband

    Apr 9, 2009

    The Federal Communications Commission yesterday began mapping out a plan to bring high-speed Internet service to the entire nation, starting with questions on how to increase its availability, improve its quality of service and make it more affordabl...

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  • Presentation

    If We Build It, Will They Log On?

    John Horrigan will participate in a roundtable discussion at the 2009 Cable Show, sponsored by the National Cable Television Association.

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  • Media Mention

    Recession could lengthen the twilight of dial-up

    Mar 23, 2009

    Only 9% of Americans were still using dial-up in a study last year by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Time Warner Inc.’s AOL, once the king of dial-up with almost 27 million U.S. subscribers at its peak, decided long ago to prop itself up i...

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  • Presentation

    Mapping Broadband and Understanding the Internet

    John Horrigan will participate in a roundtable on "Mapping Broadband" at the National Telecommunications & Information Administration. This is part public outreach for the Commerce Department's Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.

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  • Media Mention

    Our view: In rural U.S., time to tune in and log on

    Mar 10, 2009

    Today's a big day for Central Louisiana and the rest of rural America. The president of the United States will provide some details about his plan to wire the entire nation with broadband Internet access, a 21st century necessity that right now does ...

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  • Presentation

    The New News Media-scape

    This speech pulls together Pew Internet findings and analysis about how people get news and relate to news items in the digital age.

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    More in: News, New Media Ecology, Broadband, Generations, Future of the Internet, Web 2.0

  • Report

    Stimulating Broadband: If Obama builds it, will they log on?

    Investment in broadband has become part of the broader discussion about President Obama's economic stimulus package. How easy will it be to increase the pool of broadband subscribers or to encourage existing ones to upgrade their connection speeds?

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    More in: Broadband, Digital Divide

  • Infographic

    Reasons people do not have home broadband

    Our May 2008 survey asked dial-up users why they do not have a broadband connection at home and our December 2007 asked non-internet users about the reasons they do not use the internet. This table summarizes the results.

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DATA POINT

72%

of cell owners experience dropped calls at least occasionally. Some 32% of cell owners say they encounter this problem at least a few times a week or more frequently than that.

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